MIT Sloan School of Management
Artificial Intelligence in Health Care
Learn how AI technologies can be deployed to overcome challenges and optimize processes in health care implementation.
Start date
27 January 2021
Enroll by 19 January 2021
Course duration
6 weeks
Excluding orientation
Language
English
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Effort
6–8 hours per week
Self-paced learning online
Course overview
The combined percentage of surveyed health care organizations that are in some way focused on increasing their proportion of AI-assisted applications.
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The projected value of the AI health care market by 2021.
Business News Daily (Jun, 2019).
Duration: 6 weeks (excluding orientation)
Improving prediction is one of the key challenges the medical industry faces in advancing patient care. Enhancing diagnosis, individualizing treatments, and understanding disease progression are all matters of prediction, an area where artificial intelligence (AI) excels.1
Discover the impact AI innovations can have on traditional health care systems and decision-making approaches with this online short course from the MIT Sloan School of Management and the MIT J-Clinic.
Through industry case studies, you’ll better understand AI’s applications and limitations, examine the challenges AI can help overcome, and explore how it’s already been successfully deployed in the sector.
You’ll gain insight and knowledge from MIT, an institution renowned for developing machine-learning methods with applications in health care. Regina Barzilay, your Faculty Director, is also globally recognized for her work in AI and breast cancer detection.
1MIT Technology Review (Apr, 2019).Is this course for you?
Whether you work in business or medicine, this course will give you an understanding of the transformative role that AI and other disruptive technologies can play in the health care industry. Professionals working in the health sector will benefit from an understanding of the types of problems that AI techniques can help solve. The course covers key topics such as the basics of machine learning, neural networks, and deep learning. The knowledge gained throughout this course can be immediately and directly applied to roles within the health care sector.
Course overview
Introduction
Duration: 6 weeks (excluding orientation)
Improving prediction is one of the key challenges the medical industry faces in advancing patient care. Enhancing diagnosis, individualizing treatments, and understanding disease progression are all matters of prediction, an area where artificial intelligence (AI) excels.1
Discover the impact AI innovations can have on traditional health care systems and decision-making approaches with this online short course from the MIT Sloan School of Management and the MIT J-Clinic.
Through industry case studies, you’ll better understand AI’s applications and limitations, examine the challenges AI can help overcome, and explore how it’s already been successfully deployed in the sector.
You’ll gain insight and knowledge from MIT, an institution renowned for developing machine-learning methods with applications in health care. Regina Barzilay, your Faculty Director, is also globally recognized for her work in AI and breast cancer detection.
1MIT Technology Review (Apr, 2019).Is this course for you?
Whether you work in business or medicine, this course will give you an understanding of the transformative role that AI and other disruptive technologies can play in the health care industry. Professionals working in the health sector will benefit from an understanding of the types of problems that AI techniques can help solve. The course covers key topics such as the basics of machine learning, neural networks, and deep learning. The knowledge gained throughout this course can be immediately and directly applied to roles within the health care sector.
What will set you apart
An AI decision framework to help you evaluate the suitability of AI technologies within your work context.
Insights into the AI opportunities available across a range of health care contexts, from hospital management to disease diagnosis.
An overview of AI fundamentals, specifically through the lens of its applicability in health care.
An understanding of AI’s practical implementation and design challenges.
Knowledge of the potential of natural language processing, data analytics, and machine learning within health care.Course curriculum
Orientation module
Welcome to your Online Campus
Module 1
AI and machine learning — applications and foundations
Module 2
Using AI for disease diagnosis and patient monitoring
Module 3
Natural language processing and data analytics in health care
Module 4
Interpretability in machine learning — benefits and challenges
Module 5
Patient risk stratification and augmenting clinical workflows
Module 6
Taking an integrated approach to hospital management and optimization
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Faculty Director
Regina Barzilay
Delta Electronics Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
About the certificate
Realize AI’s potential for health care and earn an official certificate of completion from MIT Sloan School of Management.
Assessment is continuous and based on a series of practical assignments completed online. In order to be issued with a certificate, you’ll need to meet the requirements outlined in the course handbook. The handbook will be made available to you as soon as you begin the course.
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